List of members and supporters of the KPD who perished violently in political conflicts during the Weimar Republic

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This is a list of members and supporters of the KPD who perished violently in political clashes during the Weimar Republic .

During the Weimar Republic , several hundred members and supporters of the KPD died in violent clashes with the Reichswehr , the police and National Socialists , namely members of the SA . In the Spartacus uprising in January 1919 alone , 156 communists were killed. The suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic by the Freikorps cost the lives of 233 fighters in the “Red Army” commanded by Ernst Toller . When Bloody May 1929 33 civilians died a violent death, most Communists. In the civil war-like clashes after the SA ban was lifted in 1932, 46 communists died.

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date person Political group affiliation annotation
January 11, 1919 Wolfgang Fernbach Participant in the Spartacus uprising Belongs to a group of parliamentarians sent out by occupiers of the forward building to negotiate with government troops; shot by these.
January 11, 1919 Walter Heise Participant in the Spartacus uprising see Wolfgang Fernbach
January 11, 1919 Werner Möller Participant in the Spartacus uprising see Wolfgang Fernbach
January 11, 1919 Karl Grubusch Participant in the Spartacus uprising see Wolfgang Fernbach
January 11, 1919 Arthur Schötler Participant in the Spartacus uprising see Wolfgang Fernbach
January 11, 1919 Erich Kluge Participant in the Spartacus uprising see Wolfgang Fernbach
January 11, 1919 Paul Wackermann Participant in the Spartacus uprising see Wolfgang Fernbach
January 15, 1919 Karl Liebknecht Spartakusbund / KPD Arrested during the revolutionary fighting in Berlin in January 1919 and shot as a prisoner by members of the Guard Cavalry Rifle Division .
January 15, 1919 Rosa Luxemburg Spartakusbund / KPD Arrested during the revolutionary fighting in Berlin in January 1919 and shot as a prisoner by members of the Guard Cavalry Rifle Division.
January 17, 1919 by Lojewski Participant in the Spartacus uprising Belonging to a group of arrested Spartakists, shot dead by guards during an alleged escape attempt during a prisoner transport.
January 17, 1919 Hermann Merks Participant in the Spartacus uprising see von Lojewski
January 17, 1919 Richard Jordan Participant in the Spartacus uprising see von Lojewski
January 17, 1919 Milkert Participant in the Spartacus uprising see von Lojewski
February 23, 1919 Aloys Fulneczek KAPD After a meeting in his function as a party delegate with the government troops who had previously moved into Bottrop, he was arrested on the way back and shot in prison. Source: Sahin Aydin: A Life for the Just Cause; Biographical summary of Alois Fulneczek (December 29, 1882– February 23, 1919). Art Circle Bottrop, 2015.
10/11 March 1919 Kurt Friedrich (16 years old) Suspected of Spartacism Arrested by government soldiers together with two friends on March 10 and transferred to the morgue with the other two under "unknown" the following day; According to official information that cannot be verified later, shot while trying to escape. Wounded by a shot in the hip and in the head.
10/11 March 1919 Hans Galuska (16 years old) Suspected of Spartacism see Kurt Friedrich. Also had two gunshot wounds (one on the forehead), but also punch injuries, numerous items of clothing had been removed from the body.
10/11 March 1919 Otto Werner (18 years old) Suspected of Spartacism see Kurt Friedrich. Numerous gunshot wounds in the face and arm.
March 7, 1929 Johannes tumbler Communist Johannes Stürzenbecher was killed in a mass brawl by National Socialists and Communists on Grosse Strasse in Wöhrden on March 7, 1929 ("Wöhrden Blood Night").
June 28, 1930 Franz Rasek Communist On the way home, Rasek was attacked and stabbed by the National Socialists Aschbrenner, Stender, Nimmert, Dietz, Wienicke and Zilinski from a gathering of the “Daheim” arbor colony near Pankow. Killed by a deep stab through the lungs.
December 8, 1930 Hermann Krämer Communist, young worker When Hermann Krämer passed a National Socialist traffic bar in Cologne on December 8, 1930 on his way home, he was gunned down without cause by the National Socialist Hans Hoffmann standing in front of the bar.
January 21, 1931 Wilhelm Höschel Communist Fitter in Cologne. Father of five children. In a clash with National Socialists in Pallanzerstraße in Cologne-Sülz, National Socialists shot him through the heart.
January 24, 1931 Albert Dahmlow Communist Dähmlow (* 1900), a communist worker and chairman of the local group of the Kampfbund against fascism in Stralsund, was stabbed by the SA man Karl Lange during an attack by SA members on the communist meeting place Eldorado. He died a short time later in the hospital.
February 1, 1931 Ott Gruneberg Worker (communist?) Killed by members of SA Storm 33 on the corner of Hebbelstrasse and Schloßstrasse in Berlin.
March 1931 Ernst Nathan Apprentice baker (communist) Ernst Nathan (* 1914) was shot dead by a National Socialist in March 1931
March 25, 1931 Karl Gruber Communist Gruber, a young communist, was shot in the temple by a National Socialist in Ahlen during a National Socialist attack.
March 27, 1931 Willi Kleinfeld Communist Kleinfeld, a worker in Berlin was killed by National Socialists.
April 11, 1931 Karl Radtke Communist Radtke, a worker in Chemnitz, was killed by the National Socialists.
December 9, 1931 Walter Kusche (* around 1910) Communist During a march of SA Storm 33 through Berlin-Charlottenburg in an argument with communists in front of the communist bar Ahlert's ballroom, SA leader Hans Maikowski shot down with two other communists and was the only one of the three to be fatally hit.
18./19. January 1932 Fritz Klemke Communist During an attack by SA members on the Berlin garden colony "Felseneck", shot by SA men "in a particularly cold-blooded manner and with incomparable brutality".
February 25, 1932 Büder Hans Büder (* 1903) was seriously injured by a police officer on February 21, 1932 while the police were evacuating a workers' bar in the north of Berlin and died of the consequences a few days later.
February 25, 1932 Steel Joseph Stahl was gunned down by National Socialists in a restaurant in early February 1932. He succumbed to his injuries on February 25, 1932.
April 9, 1932 Weiss Gerhard KPD member Weiss (* 1908/1909) was shot from behind by SA man Jankowski on Oranienburger Strasse in Glienicke when he and three other communists were checking election posters for the presidential election that took place the following day.
May 12, 1932 Beyer Karl KPD member The toolmaker Karl Beyer was shot in the chest and stomach when he was shot at the "Linde" bar on the corner of Belt and Dossestrasse in Berlin. He died on the way to the hospital.
June 27, 1932 Wittkowski Arthur Communist Wittkowski, was a young communist in Ratingen. He was shot by the National Socialists.
July 10, 1932 Adolf Bauer KPD functionary On the way home from a KPD event, Bauer was beaten up by several SS men and suffocated in a ditch.
9/10 August 1932 Konrad Pietrzuch Workers and trade unionists On the night of August 9-10, 1932, in the Upper Silesian village of Potempa, his apartment was attacked by five uniformed SA men and beaten to death in the presence of his mother ( Potempa murder ).
January 6, 1933 Peter Greif Communist Greif (* 1902), the KPD chairman von Ehrang, was shot down by three NSDAP supporters on January 1st. He died on January 6th in Ehranger Hospital as a result of the gunshot wounds.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfram Wette : Gustav Noske. A political biography. Droste, Düsseldorf 1995, p. 308.
  2. ↑ Sven Reichardt : Fascist combat leagues. Violence and community in Italian squadrism and in the German SA. Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna / Weimar 2002, ISBN 978-3-412-13101-2 , p. 91.
  3. ^ Emil Julius Gumbel: Four years of political murder . Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1980, ISBN 3-88423-011-5 , p. 4th f . ( Online at gutenberg.org ).
  4. ^ Emil Julius Gumbel: Four years of political murder . Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1980, ISBN 3-88423-011-5 , p. 8 f ( online at gutenberg.org ).
  5. ^ Emil Julius Gumbel: Four years of political murder . Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1980, ISBN 3-88423-011-5 , p. 9 ( online at gutenberg.org ).
  6. ^ Emil Julius Gumbel: Four years of political murder . Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1980, ISBN 3-88423-011-5 , p. 13 f ( online at gutenberg.org ).
  7. ↑ Blutnacht in the chronicle of the municipality of Wöhrden , article on the website of the city of Wöhrden (after: Horst Ploog: Geschichte der Gemeinde Wöhrden , Wöhrden 1997, pp. 221–224); Christian M Sörensen: Political development and rise of the NSDAP in the Husum and Eiderstedt districts, 1918-1933 , Neumünster 1995, p. 284 f. and 571.
  8. ↑ Gumbel: In Search of Truth , 1991, p. 69.
  9. ↑ Gumbel: In Search of Truth , 1991, p. 71.
  10. ^ Emil Julius Gumbel: In Search of Truth , 1991, p. 74; West German observer from January 22, 1931.
  11. ↑ Ulrike Puvogel: Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism. A documentation. Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia , 1999, p. 472; Scheer: Blood and Honor , p. 224.
  12. ^ Bernhard Sauer: Goebbels Rabauken. P. 127.
  13. ↑ Emil Julis Gumbel: In Search of Truth , 1991, p. 78. See also Berliner Tageblatt of March 27, 1931.
  14. ↑ a b Maximilian Scheer: Blood and Honor , 1937, p. 225.
  15. ^ Bernhard Sauer: Goebbels "Rabauken". On the history of the SA in Berlin-Brandenburg , in: Landesarchiv Berlin: Yearbook of the Landesarchiv Berlin 2006 , Berlin 2006, p. 133 ( PDF ).
  16. ^ Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED: Murder and again and again murder! A chronicle of the violent crimes of German imperialism since 1919 , 1966, p. 29.
  17. ^ Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED: Murder and again and again murder! A chronicle of the violent crimes of German imperialism since 1919 , 1966, p. 29.
  18. ↑ DIE LINKE Glienicke commemorated the victims of the Nazis . ( Memento of February 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) April 9, 2013.
  19. ↑ Andreas Petersen: "Youth on the battlefields", in: Yves Müller (Ed.): SA, 2013, p. 68.
  20. ↑ Maximilian Scheer: Blood and Honor , 1937, p. 229.
  21. ↑ Maximilian Scheer: Blood and Honor , 1937, p. 234; Kurt Düwell / Franz Irsigler: Trier in der Neuzeit , 1988, p. 522.